Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Yahoo Names Chief Product Officer

Sunnyvale-based Yahoo said yesterday that it has named Blake Irving as Chief Product Officer, and has shifted Prabhakar Raghavan as Chief Scientist at Yahoo! Labs. According to Yahoo, Irving replaces Ari Balogh, who is leaving the firm for "personal reasons". Irving was most recently a professor at Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Business and Management in Malibu, California, and had previously served as Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Windows Live Platform group. Irving also has served at Xerox Corp., Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. and Compaq Computer Corp.